title: [A case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis accompanied with fasciitis of the extremities].
abstract: We encountered a very rare case of eosinophilic gastroenteritis accompanied with fasciitis of the extremities. The patient was a 28-year-old woman with epigastralgia, eosinophilia plus leukocytosis, massive pleural effusion and ascites, and thickening of the walls of the intestine. Increase of the eosinophilic fraction in her ascites led to a diagnosis of eosinophilic gastroenteritis. She soon developed resting pain in all limbs and MRI revealed fasciitis. Prednisolone was effective in treating both gastroenteritis and fasciitis.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Japan. ikuma@hama-med.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tomoharu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuura
authors.forename: Mihoko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamade
authors.forename: Naoya
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsushita
authors.forename: Shinsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawasaki
authors.forename: Tomohiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Terai
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Uotani
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takayanagi
authors.forename: Takahiro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamada
authors.forename: Chise
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kodaira
authors.forename: Mitsushige
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: Takahisa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Furuta
authors.forename: Ken
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: Satoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Osawa
authors.forename: Mutsuhiro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikuma
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications*; D005121:Extremities; D005208:Fasciitis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans